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By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 28, 2008 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton | 70 Comments
From Susan: Larry and I, and then our growing family of writers, began writing so many stories on the candidates and the elections that we nearly lost track of the rich history of frank reports in our archives — those stories we wrote that provide the tell-tale “truth and nothing but the truth” that YOU [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 24, 2008 in Current Affairs | 14 Comments
Today’s “Political Grapevine” with a “guess who’s delivering the annual Christmas message on a prominent British TV channel?” [you'll be astonished] plus some amusing stats on the over-zealous global warming types. I’m a radical, misanthropic environmental and wildlife advocate, but sometimes even I have to chuckle at some of the claims. But, yeah, [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 23, 2008 in Current Affairs, Open Thread | 14 Comments
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By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 20, 2008 in Current Affairs | 122 Comments
First things first: Do you happen to know the synonyms for the word “Warren”?
My beloved Roget’s Thesaurus lists these words as substitutes for the word “Warren”:
Sty, Pigsty, Pigpen, Stable, Augean Stables, Dump and hole and shithole , rathole, tenement, slum, rookery, the inner city, the ghetto, the slums, plague spot, pesthole, hovel.
One has to feel [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 17, 2008 in Current Affairs | 85 Comments
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By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 17, 2008 in Current Affairs | 98 Comments
Preface: Before you read the following, or listen to the video, please place a gallon bucket or large basin nearby.
Chris “Tingle” Matthews is in awe of the prospect of the anointment appointment of Caroline Kennedy, nee Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, as United States Senator from the State of New York:
“I am as much in the glow [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 16, 2008 in Current Affairs, George Bush, Iraq, Terrorism, Torture | 104 Comments
Okay, the first time I saw this video, I laughed but also was worried for the safety of the president. While I empathize with the journalist’s attitude towards President Bush, and his focus on “freedom of speech,” we cannot allow people to throw things at the president. I was impressed with Bush’s quick reaction time. [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 15, 2008 in Current Affairs, Open Thread | 295 Comments
… or my husband, um, what’s his name again?
Huh. The New York Times has the scoop — that Caroline has decided she wants, she really wants, to be a U.S. Senator — and it’s breaking news just announced on TV cable news networks.
[UPDATE: It just hit me. It all fits. Her birthdate is [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 13, 2008 in Current Affairs | 68 Comments
Pat Buchanan has written a provocative, thoughtful essay, “What Obama Offered Blagojevich,” about the astonishing Blagojevich story that is of such complexity that it requires — demands — as much input and observations from as many of our brightest and most insightful writers as is possible. Mr. Buchanan is one such writer. He is [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 11, 2008 in Alexi Giannoulias, Allison Davis, Bernardine Dohrn, Crown family, Cullen Davis, Current Affairs, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Deval Patrick, Emil Jones, Father Michael Pfleger, Frank Marshall Davis, Illinois, Nadhmi Auchi, Penny Pritzker, Rashid Khalidi, Rev. James Meeks, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Rev. Michael Pfleger, Rev. Otis Moss, Richard Daley, Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko, Valerie Jarrett, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 158 Comments
CHRIS MATTHEWS to Bill Ayers, December 10, 2008, Hardball, MSNBC: “I was a Capitol policeman at the time, so I was one of the guys that could have been killed obviously at the time you put that, your guys put that bomb in there. So I have a little personal interest. It wasn’t [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 10, 2008 in Current Affairs | 26 Comments
PEBO may be having trouble sleeping tonight, restless not from conscience but from consciousness of guilt. Doubtless, his vast flock is asleep, unaware, and dreaming of champagne flutes and satin gowns and great glory and their imagined, they are so sure, prideful no-small-part in history. Yet, there maybe one or two in the vast flock [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 6, 2008 in Current Affairs | 86 Comments
Because Larry has shared wonderful photos of his beloved Patton The Squirrel Hunter and his dearly beloved Ceasar The Wise Senior Leader who departed this week, our readers are sharing photographs of their beloved companions. About his “bitch,” our NoQuarter regular reader Somerset writes:
“Our girl is almost 9 years old (on Valentine’s Day) and [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 5, 2008 in Current Affairs, Open Thread | 44 Comments
This is General Patton aka Patton aka Larry Johnson’s sweetie Rottweiler who misses his dear old pal Ceasar very much. Larry says that Patton LOVES to chase squirrels, but otherwise is not very fierce. The other day, he brought Larry a squirrel! YUM!!!! (The squirrel was, um, deceased. Larry wonders if [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 4, 2008 in Current Affairs | 144 Comments
he wrote this note to a few friends — i’ve deleted some names just in case:
SUBJECT: Only the good die young. Not true.
Well, Ceasar proved that old saw wrong. He started his downhill slide couple of weeks ago (we suspect cancer). There are not too many 12 year old Rottweiler’s running around. Over the [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 3, 2008 in Current Affairs | 68 Comments
(speaking for myself only)*
Of note to Steve Markom who’d spoken with me about this via e-mail, Hillary Clinton’s support for Israel is important in this new administration, as the video narrator points out.
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 1, 2008 in Current Affairs | 46 Comments
UPDATE: This is a foreword. Below the fold, you will see that I allowed myself to lapse into a stream of consciousness for a short while. That is a style of writing that was employed by William Faulkner and many great writers. I am most certainly not in their league, but sometimes [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 28, 2008 in Open Thread | 38 Comments
Why am I sometimes Lena Grove? Because I read William Faulkner’s Light in August at age 20 and knew that I was she and that her story would always and forever be my life story. I knew.
Her innocence, her aloneness, her endurance in living through crisis after crisis, her primal connection to nature. [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 24, 2008 in Current Affairs | 263 Comments
Larry has a great POV on this. Whatever people do in their bedrooms is their business, and if they want to get married, let ‘em. Nobody should worry about that stuff.
But these protests against SELECT people are SO wrong. Black churches and mosques get a pass? Blacks and Muslims all get [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 22, 2008 in Open Thread, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | 89 Comments
Okay, before we chat about Bob Woodward, we need to discuss the one of the MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FACING US IN THE COMING FOUR YEARS: Where will we go to read truthful and objective reports about the activities and achievements, as well as the problems and challenges, of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton? [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 21, 2008 in Current Affairs | 127 Comments
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This is how upside down my world is! I think Karl Rove’s remarks are so smart and so insightful. Yet I still wish, [...]
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